“Do you trust me?” I rather ask, looking at her over my shoulder. She pins me to the spot. “At first, no, but only because you seemed so—volatile. Explosive. Mischievous and… crazy.” She winces. “Sorry.” I roll my eyes. “Your intuition is right. I’m absolutely all of those things.” “But now, yes. I do. Probably even more than I do Perse since she’s clearly keeping secrets from me.”
